A Comparative Study On Cross-strait Banking Competitiveness

"Strengthen the cross-strait financial cooperation, promote it in a proper way to establish cross-strait currency settlement mechanism" was written into the "Twelfth Five Year Plan" by the State Council in2011. It can be seen that strengthen the cross-strait financial cooperation is a forward-looking national strategic decision. In recent years, the cross-strait cooperation in the financial services trade, which is mainly composed of the banking sector, has made great progress. Many scholars believe that the financial service trade is the window of the cross-strait cooperation. Thus it is of great significance to promote banking competitive force on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and strengthen the complementary advantages of the banking industry in order to deepen the financial service trade cooperation, improve the financial system reform and maintaining financial stability across the strait.This thesis introduced the development of cross-strait financial service trade and the process of cross-strait cooperation in the banking industry. Using Porter’s Diamond Model, this thesis gives a qualitative comparative analysis of the effect factors of cross-strait banking competitiveness. In reference to CAMELS rating, Moody’s rating and the Banker magazine in China, the thesis builds an evaluation index system of16indicators to evaluate competitiveness of16stock-listed commercial banks in mainland and the first nine biggest local banks in Taiwan, and use Time-serial Global Principal Component Analysis (TGPCA) to rank these banks from four principal components every year since2007.After transverse and longitudinal comparison, this article draws a conclusion that scale effect is very significant to banking and there exists monopoly of banking in mainland. While the state-owned commercial banks of mainland have tremendous financial strength, Taiwan’s banks present more market diversification. The management ability of joint-stock commercial banks in mainland has been significantly increased, but still not advanced enough than banks in Taiwan. And the capital adequacy ratio of Taiwan banks performs more outstanding. According to the analysis result, this thesis puts forward the proposal about how to further promote the competitiveness of the cross-strait banking,and to deepen the cross-strait cooperation and communication in financial service trade.